How Does Fahrenheit 451 Affect Society

Society was an important dynamic in the novel Fahrenheit 451. In the novel, the dystopian society caused the country to burn books in result of warning reality at the time it was published.

Why was this novel a warning to society? Society is the general public living together in a more or less ordered community. With the thought of a novel effecting America in this way, it was even banned due to profanity and had beliefs of going against certain religions. The way this novel went against certain religions was an action by Guy Montag, the fireman, ripping out the pages of the bible until Faber, an old English teacher, would help him understand what he was reading,

(Bradbury 2,13). America can still be affected by this book today. Fahrenheit 451 warns

Not only was America greatly affected by Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, but how it was affected was important. Bradbury made his point with this book by writing about multiple things that affected what he thought would happen to society if we stopped reading books completely. His purpose was to warn our culture about becoming dumbed down. He also was saying that we did not care about being intellectual in a world that only needed TV and video games to keep us entertained.

As quoted by Montag’s Wife, “It's really fun. It'll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It's only two thousand dollars”, (Bradbury 1,11). The quote said by Mildred was saying that we only need useless entertainment to keep us busy, when we could have a face-to-face conversation with a real person. This society even caused people to become very selfish and to not think about anyone else. Montag thought about Clarisse, "But Clarisse's favourite subject wasn't herself. It was everyone else, and me. She was the first person in a good many years